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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154706390 Title: The invention of sacred tradition Author: James R Lewis; Olav Hammer Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9780521864794 0521864798 OCLC:154706390

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The invention of sacred tradition

Author:	James R Lewis; Olav Hammer
Publisher:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:	book_printbook : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database:	WorldCat
Summary:	Examines the phenomenon of 'invented traditions' in religions from ancient times to the present day.
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Subjects	Religion. Spiritual life. Godsdiensten. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	James R Lewis; Olav Hammer Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780521864794 0521864798
OCLC Number:	154706390
Description:	xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction / Olav Hammer and James R. Lewis -- Scientology, scripture and sacred tradition / Mikael Rothstein -- 'He may be lying but what he says is true' : the sacred tradition of Don Juan as reported by Carlos Castaneda, anthropologist, trickster, guru, allegorist / Charlotte E. Hardman -- The invention of sacred tradition : Mormonism / Douglas J. Davies -- Antisemitism, conspiracy culture, Christianity, and Islam : the history and contemporary religious significance of the 'Protocols of the learned elders of Zion' / Christopher Partridge and Ron Geaves The invention of a counter-tradition : the case of the North American anti-cult movement / David G. Bromley and Douglas E. Cowan -- 'Heavenly deception' Sun Myung Moon and Divine principle / George D. Chryssides -- 'Forgery' in the New Testament / Einar Thomassen -- Three phases of inventing Rosicrucian tradition in the seventeenth century / Susanna Åkerman -- A name for all and no one: Zoroaster as a figure of authorization and a screen of ascription / Michael Stausberg -- The peculiar sleep : receiving The Urantia book / Sarah Lewis -- Ontology of the past and its materialization in Tibetan treasures / Holly Gayley -- Pseudo-Dionysius : the mediation of sacred traditions / Kevin Corrigan and Michael Harrington -- Spurious attribution of the Hebrew Bible / Philip R. Davies -- Inventing paganisms: making nature / Graham Harvey.
Responsibility:	edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only

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